Homemade Sunflower, Pecan & Apricot Granola bars are a nutritious and delicious treat that you can enjoy for breakfast or as a snack. This recipe is abundant with healthy ingredients like sunflower seeds, sunflower butter, pecans, oats and protein-rich egg whites. You can feel great about making these any time the mood strikes. Well, it’s…
Overnight New York Style Bagels
These bagels are chewy, crusty and properly dense, New York Style Bagels. The overnight rise creates the perfect texture and flavor, and you can have fresh, hot bagels for breakfast or brunch.
Triple Ginger & Cranberry Biscotti
Triple Ginger & Cranberry Biscotti are flavored with ginger 3-ways and studded with sweet/tart craisins. Perfect for dunking into coffee, espresso or dessert wine. I love biscotti because they really are easy to make and they keep for weeks. I also like that biscotti are hard and crunchy and are just begging to be dipped into coffee or…
Gougères – French Cheese Puffs
Gougères are cheesy, light puffs made with pâte à choux, the “cream puff” batter. They are wonderful as hors d’oeuvres, appetizers or wine-tasting-palate-cleansers. They can be stuffed with a savory filling for a more substantial bite. LET’S GEEK OUT WITH A LITTLE BAKING SCIENCE: All baked goods rise because air in the batter or dough…
Sourdough Croissants
Classic croissants take on an extra special flavor when made with sourdough starter. To have fresh Sourdough Croissants for breakfast, refrigerate them overnight and bake in the morning. The difference between Classic Croissants and Sourdough Croissants is the use of the natural yeast in the starter to rise the dough. (I did use a smidge…
Blackberry Pate de Fruit – Blackberry Vanilla Fruit Jellies
Blackberry Pate de Fruit are soft, melt-in-your-mouth jelly candies made with real blackberry juice. The candies are rolled in vanilla sugar for a pretty and tasty finish. Pate de Fruit is a wonderful introduction to candy making. The french name sounds fancy, but they are, basically, fruit jellies. As long as you use real fruit…
Eggnog Panna Cotta
Eggnog Panna Cotta has everything you love about the creamy holiday drink, but I’ve turned it into a luscious dessert. Skip the liquor if you want it to be alcohol-free. Panna Cotta is one of those dishes that, if you’ve never made it, you might think it’s super-fancy and super hard to make. But it…
Pumpkin Mousse Pie with Toasted Brown Sugar Meringue
My Pumpkin Mousse Pie is made with a crunchy graham cracker-pecan crust filled with light and luscious pumpkin mousse. You can add optional bourbon for a kick or use water for alcohol-free version. The pie is topped with a mountain of luscious toasted brown sugar meringue. Before we get full-swing into the next season, let’s…
Sourdough Pumpkin Cranberry Quick Bread
Sourdough Pumpkin Cranberry Quick Bread is super moist, easy to make bread and has a wonderful flavor & texture thanks to “discard” sourdough starter. Fresh cranberries add another tangy pop of flavor. If you’re a sourdough-bread baker, you know how painful it is to throw away a whole cup of hard-earned yeasty goodness every time…
White Chocolate Sacher Torte
White Chocolate Sacher Torte is an inventive riff on the classic European cake. White chocolate sponge cake is layered with rum-spiked apricot preserves and iced with a silky white chocolate glaze. Decorate the cake with white chocolate shavings for a beautiful presentation. I had the idea to make a White Chocolate Sacher Torte kicking around…